Crossword-Solution: RETOUCH
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Retouch | v. t. | To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay. |
| Retouch | v. t. | To correct or change, as a negative, by handwork. |
| Retouch | n. | A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RETOUCH | anagram | TOUCHER |
We have 20 clues for the answer “RETOUCH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Edit with Photoshop, perhaps | 1 answer |
| restore or improve by new touches, esp of paint | 1 answer |
| Remove red eye, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Prepare tabloid pictures | 1 answer |
| Paint a nick, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Paint a nick | 1 answer |
| Improve a photo. | 1 answer |
| Fix, as makeup | 1 answer |
| Fix up a photo | 1 answer |
| Fix the colors on, say | 1 answer |
| Digitally enhance, as a photo | 1 answer |
| Cover the blemishes on, as a photo | 1 answer |
| Alter, as a photograph | 1 answer |
| Airbrush, maybe | 1 answer |
| Fix up, in a way | 2 answers |
| Do a photographer's job | 2 answers |
| Paint over. | 3 answers |
| Airbrush | 3 answers |
| Spruce (up) | 46 answers |
| Modify | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with RETOUCH (5)
Should her outline be defective, she dare not retouch it; should her shading be too heavy or insufficient, she cannot take from it and she may not add to it, as this would make it defective in the matter of calligraphy.
Livy would at a glance distinguish the bold strokes of the forgotten poet from the dull and feeble narrative by which they were surrounded, would retouch them with a delicate and powerful pencil, and would make them immortal.
For so advancèd, dear, to thee, It would unlearn humility! Yet do not, with an altered look, In these weak numbers read rebuke; Which are but jealous lest too much God’s master-piece thou shouldst retouch.
This hasty sketch may with safety be taken as the portrait of Louis XV, although much might be added; yet for the present I will confine myself to the outline of my picture, which I shall have frequent occasion to retouch in the course of my journal; it is my intention to present him in all possible lights before the reader, and I flatter myself I shall produce a perfect resemblance of the man I seek to depict.
Pinxit availed himself of the opportunity to retouch, from a sketch taken upon the spot, his admirable painting of the “Marsyas flayed alive.” When I had afforded sufficient amusement, it was thought proper to remove my body from the gallows;—this the more especially as the real culprit had in the meantime been retaken and recognized, a fact which I was so unlucky as not to know.
Quotes with RETOUCH (3)
The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret..
They shout that they want to shape a better future, but it's not true. The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy it or repaint it. We want to be the masters of the future only for the power to change the past. We fight for access to the labs where we can retouch photos and rewrite biographies and history.
Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body -- not too little, not too much, just right.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1954–2021).